Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-23
MISSOURI FLOODS.
The Advance of the Buford
Rise Reaches Yankten.
Eleven Feet at Chamberlain ana Ten
Feet at Running Water and
Springfield.
Another Rise at Bismarck Yes.
terday and the Sibley Island
Gorge Intact.
TELEaRAMs.

TELEGRAMS.
Springfield, Dakota, March %
Special to tn Press and Dakotaian-
There Is a ten foot rise In the Missouri
here this morning and the river is still
rising.
Running Water, Dakota, March 23-
SPECIAL to the Press and Dakotaian-
Since four o'clock this morning the river
has risen nine feet and at eight o'clock
is still rising. 1t is filed with heavy ice.
Chamberlain, Dakota, March 25- Spe-
cial to the Press and Dakotaian-The Mis-
souri, cached Its highest rise, eleven feet,
yesterday at about 2 p. nj. 1t has fallen
this morning two feet. The channel is
covered with floating ice. Yesterday
two Hat boats, one a very large one,
hoated past. Also lots of aood wood.
a truck Il 'ated by right side up and 10
good condition on a large cake of ice.
CONDITIONS AT BISMARCK.
Monday Eight the food subsidized
twelve inches at Bismarck and stood at
the high water mark of 1881. Yesterday
1T .ose again as much as it had fallen,
and stood at the highest point reached
this spring. There are no gorges above
Bismarck, but the gorge below that
city, at Sibley Island, still holds and
keeps back thu food, which is spread
all over the lowlands in the neighbor-
hood of Bismarck and Mandan. Dyna-
mite has been freely used on the Sibley
Island gorge without effect. The jack
son family, consisting of father, mother
and two children, were drowned in the
flood at Painted Woods. a short distance
above Bismarck.
THE LOWER RIVER RISE.
The rise which has been reported from
Pierre, Chamberlain, Running Water
and Springfield and reached here to-day
has nowhere been given as greater than
eleven feet. 1t doubtless from the
Buford and Bismarck food, though the
bulk of the water is held back by the
gorge at Sibley Island. Points below
have received the overflow from the ice
dam at Sibley Island and the water
which has seeped through that barrier.
When the Sibley Island gorge breaks the
immense volume of water and ice it
holds Fill descend tho river with tre-
mendous force and another rise can be
expected along the river below. But
the Sibley Island gorge is o benefit to
this section of the river. 1t gives us the
food in installments. The eleven foot
rise was the first installment. As it
passes the river falls and by the time the
gorge gives way the first hoodswlll have
gone below and the river can take care
of the second lnstallment.
AT YANKToN.
The rise began at Ysnkton about nine
O'Clock this forenoon and has gradually
increased all day. Up to moor the water
was clear, but at that hour the ice be-
gan to show itself and has been running
heavy oil the afternoon. 1t is in large
and solid pieces and is mixed with con-
siderable drift material. The rise at
this point to-day has been about eight
feet, covering all the bars in front of the
city. None of the bottom land has yet
been overlooked and ice and water are
passing rapidly ..on their course. AT
four O'clock this afternoon the river was
still rapidly rising.
A large flow of solid, heavy ice oacu-
pies the main channel neal the Nebraska
side and struggling pieces are sailing
downward in the smaller channels which
have been caused by the water filling
the depressions between sand bars.
The ferry boat Josie T.. K. was tied
up just before noon at a point on the
Dakota side opposite Picotte street,
! where she will remain till the channel is
free. from ice. A large number of people
have been interested spectators Of the
movements of the mighty Missouri this
afternoon and the scene which meets the
gaze of old settlers brings vlvidIy to
the mind the sping of 1881.
A courier On horseback was dispatched
at two o'clock to inform the farmers east
| OF the James river of the condition Of
the Missouri above.